mongolic and tungusic language sketches
Abstract
The article examines lexical correspondences between Mongolic, Tungusic-Manchu and Turkic languages represented by phonetically similar words the distribution of which among the Altaic language groups is not explained in terms of common Altaic and does not correspond to the principles of known lexical borrowings from Turkic languages into Mongolic ones and from Mongolic languages into Tungusic-Manchu ones.
The available data on historical phonetics of Turkic and Mongolic languages with special attention paid to the recent conditions of the Mongolic languages (e.g., Buryat dialects and Daghur) and the recent conditions of the Turkic languages (Kazakh, Yakut, Turkic languages of Siberia) and evaluation of perspectives for further structural evolution of Turkic words in those languages that could have fallen into disuse and, thus, were not recorded in Turkic written monuments – served as the basis for the research. Special attention is paid to words containing the phonemes that differ in the correspondences in separate Turkic languages and can have reflections that no longer exist in the living languages.
The author proposes to consider such words that are numerous enough in Tungusic-Manchu languages and are not part of the common Tungusic lexical fund, as well as some words of Mongolic languages — as old borrowings from dead Mongolic dialects and borrowings from disappeared Turkic languages that had been absorbed by the Tungusic-Manchu languages in the 1st millennium BC. Separate words that could have belonged to disappeared Turkic languages can be found in modern Turkic languages but those are out of the regular system of inter-Turkic phonetic correspondences.
About the Author
A. Burykin
Institute for Linguistic Studies of the RAS
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Ph.D. in Philology (Doctor of Philological Sciences), Ph.D. in History (Doctor of Historical Sciences), Leading Research Associate, Dictionary Department
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Burykin A. mongolic and tungusic language sketches. Mongolian Studies. 2016;8(1):65-87. (In Russ.)
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